tallowood wrote on Apr 7
th, 2009 at 4:53pm:
Calanen wrote on Apr 7
th, 2009 at 4:45pm:
tallowood wrote on Apr 7
th, 2009 at 11:39am:
safe base charlie Quote:MILITARY facilities are in lockdown across southwest Sydney over fears bikie gangs may try to break in to weapons armouries.
May be they should lay a trap and whack the whackos who get into it? It would be a good practical urban operation exercise for infantry.
That would require far more competence than any of our agencies have or could ever assemble.
Perhaps, expect the bikies to do something like break into a defence depot in Melbourne or Canberra now they have locked the Sydney ones down. As much as the bikies are bad however, invading an army base seems a bit over the top, even for them. Also, even if they do break in, we wont hear about it. They will issue security notices to prevent publication in the interest of 'national security.', which is wheeled out whenever anything embarassing happens. Its only when the press finds out before the govt does that the public knows.
With an invasion on an army base, the govt will find out first, and lock down the info with directions from the Attorney General on national security grounds. So we might find out about in 20 years or so, unless its leaked.
There can be other indicators e.g. increase of usage of military hardware on Australian streets or decrease of bikies activities depending who won.
Unless you are there, to watch it, security notices issued by the Attorney General make things disappear. Even a shoot out with automatic weapons in a public street, if a notice is issued, cannot be published, cannot be spoken of, under penalty of 5 years imprisonment. Those who are identified are given orders to sign indicating that they will not disclose what occurred under pain of imprisonment.
So if it happened, unlikely you'd ever know. It would have to happen at an event covered by the international media and be broadcast faster than they could issue the notices and cover it up.
You'd be surprised how often the regular media complies with a polite 'request' not to publish or discuss. They are reliant on government sources for access after all. If that is not enough, the AG can direct them to shut up.
As for military hardware, there is plenty of it around - soviet stuff. AK47s seem to be the thing. They don't need to break into the armoury to get it. I imagine that the recent safe base charlie alert was triggered by overheard 'chatter' in wiretaps where someone has said 'Lets break into the army base.'